The hardware conversation about edge AI has become a great deal more honest in the last year. A recent piece on this site argued that the old design hierarchy — “maximize throughput, then manage power and thermals around it” — has inverted, and that for industrial deployments power now takes top billing, with raw throughput coming last. It follows an argument this publication has been making for a while: that edge devices are “thermal-limited, not MIPS/compute-limited”, and that smartphones sit…